Zanzibar was, for hundreds of years, the center of East African slave trade. We toured the old slave quarters and the museum. It was harsh.
The actual slave market has been replaced with an Anglican Church - the British were the beneficiaries of the slave trade, but also the key forces to stopping it.
The monument is quite provocative in context.
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(From On Tyranny) 2. Defend institutions. It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of "our institutions" unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning. So choose an institution you care about -- a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union -- and take its side.
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